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How Will Gun Grabbers Spin the Boston Bombing Suspects?
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"As Chris Matthews furiously Googles to see if — somehow — the Boston Chechnyan bombing suspects were members of a nascent Tea Party cell in Grozny, we’re getting conflicting information as to how long the suspects have been in the country. The media, in its fog of mal- and mis-information, have mentioned everything from one to ten years since the brothers Tsarnaev immigrated. Be that as it may, the thoughts of pro-2A types turn to the question of how this drama will be used — and make no mistake, it will be — by civilian disarmers to bolster their deeply wounded cause . . ." ... |
Justice only happens in real time
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... "There is nothing that can be done to bring back those two women. There is no punishment. There is no apology. They are gone forever. You cannot un-murder or un-rape anyone. You cannot erase the image of those dead daughters from their father’s memory."
"The worst torture humanity could devise will never make that family whole again. In fact, the rest of us will have to pay for the incarceration, legal process, and perhaps eventual execution of this murderer. His actions will cost all of us."
"Justice?"
"There will never be justice. In such cases justice is impossible. The only way justice could have been attained was if one of those women had shot him dead at the time of the attack…because justice only happens in real time." ... |
Lautenberg introduces 'gunpowder control' legislation
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"On Wednesday, this column predicted that the Boston Marathon bombing would be exploited as justification for 'gunpowder control.' As it turns out, that prediction only outpaced reality by a matter of hours, with U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) announcing not one, but two 'gunpowder control' amendments to the not-quite-dead-yet S. 649. S. Amd. 736, the 'Explosive Materials Background Check Act,' and S. Amd. 737, of the same title, appear to be essentially the same, with 737 apparently making some technical refinements to 736. A stand-alone bill is apparently also coming." ... |
Beat feet, Brit; Piers Morgan’s ‘plane is waiting’
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"An invitation for bombastic anti-gun Brit Piers Morgan to make good on his threat to 'deport himself' if the United States didn’t alter its gun laws went viral Thursday after the Bellevue-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms suggested it might be a good time for the CNN commentator to 'get out of town.'"
"At last count, more than 100,000 people had visited CCRKBA's Facebook page to view the post." ... |
The President is a Sore Loser
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"When I heard the news that the Senate had failed to pass a Universal Background Check, I was at a police seminar on the topic of active shooters. The panelists had agreed that 'active shooter' was a poor descriptor, one noting that some attackers use other weapons, such as the blade-wielder in the recent Texas case. ..."
"When a retired police chief on the panel announced that he’d just received a text that the UBC had failed to make it through the Senate, the police audience erupted into applause. So much for the idea that cops all want to restrict your gun ownership. The real cops know where the problems are, and that they ain’t coming from people like you." ... |
Joe Biden Does the Math. Or Not.
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"'Eighty-thousand plus people a year who go through the background system are convicted felons or adjudicated incompetent to be able to own a weapon,' Vice President Joe 'Double Barrel' Biden tells his peeps at a Google Plus hangout. That 40 percent means there’s gotta be, statistically, somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 who get a gun who are not qualified. Probably higher. How does that make any sense?' Answer: it doesn’t. Stephen Gutowski of cnsnews.com deconstructs the Veep’s asinine assertion . . ." ... |
We have a choice on gun laws and gun violence
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"In Sid Salter’s column (“Gun violence is more complex than Carrey’s lowbrow video,” April 7), he cited a recent study published by the Center for American Progress, the progressive think tank, that showed Mississippi ranked No. 5 in the nation in prevalence of gun violence. I too saw the study. The ranking was based on a number of measures including overall firearm deaths, 2001-2010; firearm homicides among women, 2001-2010; and firearm deaths among children ages 0-17, 2001-2010." ...
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How Did Jesus Come to Love Guns and Hate Sex?
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"If I were a non-Christian looking from the outside in, I don't think it would be unreasonable to think that American Christians' two highest priorities right now are keeping the government from taking away our guns and stopping gay people from getting married. And I don't think it would be too far-fetched to assume that Jesus sure must love guns and hate sex. But should these really be our priorities as Christians? And if not, how did they rise to the place of prominence they have?" ... |
Someday, no more guns
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"Wednesday, on April 17th, the U.S. Senate voted against a bill that would have imposed stronger gun control legislation. It lacked seven votes to pass. President Obama had done much campaigning strongly in favor of the bill. And recent polls had shown that most Americans favored the bill’s increased gun control. It included stronger background checks, strengthening the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, and reducing the number of bullets in magazine clips for automatic[sic] weapons." ... |
Bill Maher: ‘That bullsh-t about the Senate and the Second Amendment’ should be rewritten
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"Real Time host Bill Maher called for what he called a 'Page 1 rewrite' of parts of the Constitution on Friday, arguing that the country’s founding fathers intended for it."
"'The Constitution, contrary to the beliefs of so many Tea Baggers, was not brought to us directly by Jesus,' Maher told his panel. 'And actually, the founding fathers understood that we need to amend it. They wanted us to do it. Yes, so much of it does need a Page 1 rewrite, including that bullshit about the Senate and the Second Amendment. Both of them should go.'" ... |
A Senate disconnected from the voters
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"A Washington Post/ABC News poll this week says 70 percent of Americans think the Republican Party is out of touch."
"The same poll found that 86 percent of Americans — and 84 percent of those who call themselves Republicans — support requiring background checks on gun purchases made at gun shows or over the Internet. On Wednesday, a measure that would do exactly that was stopped in the U.S. Senate after gaining the support of only four Republicans."
"Any questions?" ...
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lN: Don't get mad, get even on gun bill
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"Last week’s failure of the U.S. Senate to take up proposals to regulate the sale of guns was a display of raw political power. The NRA has it. Gun control advocates don’t."
"The breakdown of the senators’ votes spoke volumes. Four Democrats who face tough re-election prospects back home could not bring themselves to vote for what even the most fervent Second Amendment zealot would have to concede was a mild proposal." ...
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MA: Boston-Area Dunkin' Donuts Stay Open ... for Cops
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"The entire city of Boston and most of its surrounding neighborhoods are on lockdown. Authorities have been all but begging residents to stay home and businesses to stay closed. And yet reports started to creep up that there was an exception: Dunkin' Donuts. ..." ... |
NY: Home Invasion Highlights Danger of NY Mag Cap Limits
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"'Four people have been arrested in connection with a Town of Carroll home invasion and double homicide,' wivb.com reports. ...""I live about 45 minutes away from this incident in Western New York State. It is a quiet, rural area where many have a firearm handy but few expect any chance of ever needing it."
"Now, I have one simply question, 'What is the best way to distribute seven rounds among four determined home invaders?' Do I count off two a piece for the first three unwelcome guests in the door, hope one is enough for the final guy, and hope I don’t miss at all? ..." ... |
Obama Using Executive Power to Act on Background Checks
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"President Obama is still seeking to expand background checks even after the Senate voted against expanding the current background check system this week."
"The measures will allow authorities more access to health care records in order to deny the sale of more guns to more people. The measure will seek to skirt current HIPAA regulations which greatly protect the medical history of patients." ... |
Obama, boxed in
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"There are two very different President Obamas."
"There’s the confident, uncompromising Obama who sought to shame and bully Republicans into submitting to his agenda of tax increases and sweeping gun reform. This version of Obama was dominant until one month ago." ...
"He will most likely get nothing on guns despite his vow after Wednesday’s Senate defeat that 'this effort is not over.' ..." ... |
Demagogy of Machin-Toomey
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"The Manchin-Toomey expansion of background checks to private gun sales was reasonable legislation, its advocates insist, because it would have forbidden the creation of a federal registry and exempted transfers of guns between family members and between friends."
"Those features appear to be in the bill, but why should that matter? The champions of Manchin-Toomey would have us believe that once the bill passed, no more gun laws would ever be proposed again. That is, they’re either naïve or dishonest. I don’t think they’re naïve." ... |
NRA chief: Obama 'bit off more than he could chew'
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"The head of the National Rifle Association mocked President Obama's Rose Garden 'tantrum' after losing the gun control fight in the Senate, charging Thursday that Obama suffered the worst defeat of his presidency because 'he bit off more than he could chew.'"
"David Keene told Secrets that the president and his team misplayed their hand because they don't have a sense of the public's attitude toward gun control. 'They just can't gauge the public reaction to what they do because they don't have any sense that the public has feelings different than they do,' said Keene." ...
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CA: Background checks too hot for Senate, routine in California
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"It’s funny how what looks as normal as a sunny day in California, when you cross the state line, is suddenly a sign of encroaching tyranny."
"Just Wednesday, the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill to create universal background checks for firearm sales — requiring buyers at gun shows or through private sales to have the instant background check required through commercial dealers. It won 54 votes, but under Senate rules required 60. It would also have faced a likely impossible climb through the Republican-led House of Representatives, but that’s a moot point now."
"The very next day, the north state’s staunchly conservative state senator from the 1st District, Ted Gaines, was in Redding to talk politics at a town-hall meeting." ... |
NY: Cuomo On His Top Accomplishments: Gun Control And Marriage
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"The 'hallmarks' of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration will be the legalization of same-sex marriage and the January gun control law, he told Susan Arbetter in a radio interview this morning."
"'The gun vote was the best thing that I ever did. You put that and marriage equality, they’re going to be the hallmarks of what my administration is going to be about,' Cuomo said on The Capitol Pressroom." ... |
CO: More state gun bills advance
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"Stronger prohibitions on gun ownership by domestic abusers and required in-person training for concealed-carry permits advanced in the Colorado House on Friday."
"The Democrat-sponsored measures received initial approval on an unrecorded voice vote are opposed by Republicans, but did not garner as much heated debate as other gun legislation Democrats have already passed, including expanded background checks and limiting the size of ammunition magazines." ... |
NY: Schenectady Police Officer arrested in Glenville
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"A Schenectady City police detective has been put on unpaid leave after the Glenville Police Department arrested him for an alleged 'road rage' incident."
"Glenville Police have charged 45-year-old John Hotaling, of Glenville, after they were contacted on Sunday, April 7th, around 2:45 p.m. by Matthew Arnow stating that a man, identified as Hotaling, had pointed a gun at his father, Jeffrey Arnow, and him." ... |
OH: Medina Police Chief accidentally shoots himself
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"The Medina Police Chief accidentally shot himself in the leg Thursday morning, while holstering his service weapon."
"Chief Patrick J. Berarducci suffered minor injuries."
"The incident happened around 10am Thursday at the chief's house."
"Chief Berarducci was holstering his Smith & Wesson .40 caliber Shield handgun when the trigger guard[sic] got caught and discharged a round into his upper thigh." ... |
PA: Northampton County sheriff's deputy faces criminal charges over gun permit application
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"A Northampton County deputy sheriff was charged Thursday with illegally providing a confidential firearms permit application to a West Easton councilwoman, a leak that has captured widespread attention in the local blogosphere."
"Darin Ray Steward, 45, of the 6100 block of Sullivan Trail in Plainfield Township, is free on his own recognizance after an arraignment before Senior District Judge Elizabeth Romig-Gainer in downtown Easton."
"Steward faces a felony charge of illegally disseminating firearms information and a misdemeanor charge of obstructing the administration of law. He is suspended without pay amid a separate internal investigation by the sheriff's department, Sheriff Randy Miller said." ... |
TX: Ex-Grayson Co. Deputy Released From Prison
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"A former Grayson County deputy serving time for stealing guns is back home tonight. He was released from prison late this afternoon."
"The former deputy had pleaded guilty in exchange for a six year cap on any potential sentence, and he was sentenced to four years. But tonight, after serving just four months of that sentence, he is a free man."
"A motion for former deputy Errin Luton, 35, of Gordonville, was granted, and he was given eight years of probation. ..." ...
"Luton was four months into a four year sentence for theft. He admitted to stealing and pawning 200 old guns from the evidence room while serving as a Sheriff's Office sergeant." ... |
AL: Former Montgomery police officer pleads guilty to federal marijuana charge in Mobile
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"A former Montgomery police officer pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge today, admitting that he conspired with an Irvington narcotics dealer to sell marijuana."
"Lyvanh Rasavong, 43, came to court dressed in a black suit and striped tie. He said nothing except to answer 'yes' and 'no' questions from U.S. District Judge Kristi DuBose."
"The judge accepted the plea and scheduled a sentencing hearing for July. Rasavong faces a maximum of five years in prison, but defense attorney Richard Holmes said he expects his client to be eligible for probation under advisory sentencing guidelines." ... |
CO: Sheriff Maketa, not letting evil prosper
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"If the soon-to-be-enacted state gun regulations have been good for any one person in this state, that person is El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa."
"Just take a look at his Facebook page. Back in 2010, Maketa was lucky to get a couple likes and comments on one of his posts. Now, his near-daily diatribes on the gun bills are attracting hundreds of comments and thousands of likes. One of his more recent posts, this one attacking President Barack Obama's comments after the U.S. Congress failed to pass universal background checks, has been liked by 6,390 people and shared 6,615 times!" ... |
CT: The OTHER Rally
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"... The Connecticut Citizens Defense League (The state's largest grass roots gun rights group) Is hosting a Gun Rally with the purpose of uniting gun owners from across the state, and to lay out plans to challenge the new anti-gun law that recently passed. The event will take place on the north side grounds of the Capitol in Hartford Saturday April 20th from 12:00pm-3:00pm. ..." ... |
CT: Gun-rights rally finds Battle Green closed
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"Dozens of people attempted to attend a gun rights rally Friday morning in Lexington despite an emergency moratorium the town placed on gatherings on the Battle Green after the Boston Marathon bombings this week."
"Police Chief Mark Corr said several groups, ranging in size from about 10 to as many as 80 people, began arriving around 9:30 a.m. Friday for a Second Amendment rally that had at one time been issued a permit for Lexington’s historic downtown common."
"But Corr said that after the Marathon bombings Monday and based in part on the advice of federal authorities investigating the attack, the town’s Board of Selectmen held an emergency meeting Tuesday to temporarily suspend all permits for the Battle Green. ..." ...
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Guns protect citizens from government
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"Our president is trying to use the tragedy at Sandy Hook, Conn., and the grieving parents of those children to bring pressure on lawmakers to pass strong legislation restricting our Second Amendment and the rights of citizens to bear arms."
"He has said that if the life of just one child is saved, such legislation is justified."
"Tragic as events in Connecticut, Colorado, Arizona, Texas and Kentucky may have been, there were already gun laws in existence which were violated by evil people with evil intent."
"If one child or life is so important to our president: Why has he been silent about the slaughter of youths on the streets of Chicago (Murder City) where strict gun control laws are not enforced?" ... |
FL: Gun Stores Seeing A Run On Ammunition (video available)
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"Ammunition sellers and manufacturers say there’s been a run on bullets and they can’t keep their shelves stocked."
"Jeff Dillard who runs National Armory in Pompano says it’s the worst he’s ever seen."
"'I have never seen ammo so impossible to get,' said Dillard." ... |
IL: Where will you carry at come June 9th?
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"The Illinois House voted on the newest 'shall issue' carry bill which was a fair bit more restrictive than the original HB997 introduced in January."
"It seems that civil rights opponents are hell-bent on taking us over the cliff to unregulated carry here in Illinois?"
"Where will you carry come June 9th?"
"Hint: It’s a Sunday." ... |
MN: Second Amendment not about assault weapons
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"I have a question. Perhaps readers could answer because I can’t get any of my federal congressional representatives to answer. What I don’t understand is, if our government places a ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines, how does that infringe on the Second Amendment of the Constitution? ..."
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Submitter's Note: "in·fringe [ in frínj ] ...
2. encroach on somebody's rights or property: to take over land, rights, privileges, or activities that belong to somebody else, especially in a minor or gradual way"
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MI: Requests to carry concealed firearms are up more than 50 percent in Genesee County
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"More people in Genesee County want to carry a concealed firearm." ...
"The three months combined equate to 2,238 requests for applications so far in 2013, up from 1,484 for the first three months of 2012. That's a 51 percent increase."
"Genesee County Clerk John Gleason has an idea of what's driving the trend."
"'It's the gun debate in Washington and the threat of people losing their weapons,' Gleason said." ... |
WV: 8th grade student suspended, arrested over gun t-shirt (video available)
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"When 8th grade Jared Marcum got dressed for school on Thursday he says he had no idea that his pro-Second Amendment shirt would initiate what he calls a fight over his First Amendment rights."
"'I never thought it would go this far because honestly I don't see a problem with this, there shouldn't be a problem with this,' Jared said."
"It was the image of a gun printed on Jared's t-shirt that sparked a dispute between a Logan Middle School teacher and Jared, that ended with Jared suspended, arrested and facing two charges, obstruction and disturbing the education process, on his otherwise spotless record." ...
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OK: New gun laws unnecessary; enforce current laws
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"Regarding 'Coburn fires back at critics over gun vote' (News, April 13): U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, wants to do right, but I don't think he has his thinking cap on. 'What is up for consideration,' Coburn said, 'is how to improve a broken system that literally allows illegal aliens, drug traffickers, child molesters, rapists, felons, member of al-Qaida and mentally deranged persons to buy firearms.'"
"What should be 'up for consideration' is simply enforcing the existing law, not writing useless 'preventative legislation' that doesn't work and encompasses the infringement of the Second Amendment for lawful citizens." ... |
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